Bob Lind

Bob Lind has enjoyed a sizable following based on a rather small body of work. He released just four albums between 1966 and 1971, and landed only one single in the Top 40, but he's acknowledged as a key artist in the '60s folk-rock boom. "Elusive Butterfly," a chart success in 1966, was a breezy number that nodded to psychedelia and sunshine pop, and his material of the era (as collected on The Best of Bob Lind: You Might Have Heard My Footsteps) is carefully crafted folk-rock with a pop sensibility. Lind detoured into country-rock for 1971's Since There Were Circles, and when he returned to music with 2012's Finding You Again, he'd added Baroque accents to his arrangements (created by Jamie Hoover of the Spongetones). A darker and more cynical lyrical outlook dominated 2016's Magellan Was Wrong and 2022's Something Worse Than Loneliness.